ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study the process of healing and reconciliation between the victim and the
offender in a post-TRC period in South Africa is being investigated with a view to the
challenge it poses to pastoral ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This proposal focuses on the quest for appropriate God-images which can be
used to represent God in a given pastoral situation within an African context. It
identifies the challenge that confronts the ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Africa is a continent ravaged by challenges of poverty, scourge of disease and many conflicts, some of which are motivated by religious fanaticism. Indeed, it is a continent in dire need of spiritual, ...

In the Reformed tradition the autonomy of the local congregation - as the concrete community of people who interpret the Gospel with their words and deeds - as well as the maturity of the ordinary believers, rest precisely ...

De Villiers, Desiree(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-12)

This paper attempts an exploration and description of a hermeneutic of learned helplessness. Drawing on insights from both psychology and theology, it problematises the interaction that an individual believer can develop ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Pastors and congregations need to communicate the faithfulness and care of God within the real life
contexts of the communities that they are a part of. The problem is that pastoral theology has been ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is concerned with integrated spirituality. Spirituality is understood as a life orientation
that presents itself both in worship and in a re-ordering of the elements of a
person's life to a ...

In the discipline of practical theology, one finds a long history of linking the name of the field
to diaconiology, in which you find the Greek word diaconia, directly translated as ‘service’. For
good and scientific ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation aims at discussing the influence of two eminent trends on African culture: modernity and globalization with special reference to the culture of silent sexuality as understood and practiced ...